Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Pupils and Students Union of Côte d'Ivoire


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:07, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

National Pupils and Students Union of Côte d'Ivoire

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Sure this is from Africa and before the Internet so sources may not be easily accessible but my searches found nothing to suggest better improvement with the best results here. This was started by an IP from Gambia, Africa in July 2005 and has been sparsely edited since then; tagger Stewy5714 is no longer active but still is. SwisterTwister  talk  02:41, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. They're aa natioanl organization so I'd given the benefit of the doubt.  DGG ( talk ) 05:55, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. I reach this position reluctantly, because the encyclopedia could use many more articles on Africa.  But this isn't one of them.  I note that it is sourced solely to a book by Laurent Gbagbo, who is mentioned in the article as a candidate for president of the organization.  Gbagbo later went on to become the head of state for the Ivory Coast and has a reasonably good article  here.  But that article mentions nothing about his membership in this organization (nor about writing the book).  There have been student groups in the Ivory Coast that have had some impact on the country.  One of them was involved in strikes that eventually played a part in the severing of relations between the Ivory Coast and the Soviet Union (a brief description is here).  Another played a role in one of the Ivorian civil wars (see FESCI). But by the instant article's own testimony, this organization didn't really do anything other than hold "congresses".   Notability just isn't there.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 00:23, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:52, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete for now. Agreed with NewYorkActuary. The book by Gbagbo referenced in the article, Côte d'Ivoire, Pour une alternative démocratique, seems to be a book where Gbagbo expounds his ideas about the politics and development of Côte d'Ivoire, and it seems unlikely that such a book would contain much material about a student organization to which he once belonged. Also, as mentioned above, it is not clear from the article that the organization did anything other than exist and hold meetings and such, so it doesn't strike me as likely that more sources would be easy to find locally. Can be restored if that turns out to be the case, of course.   Sandstein   09:59, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - Searches turned up nothing to show the notability of this organization. Agree with nom, NewYorkActuary and Sandstein assessments.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:13, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with the reasoning by editor NewYorkActuary. Fails WP:GNG, fails WP:ORG for lack of coverage, much less substantive coverage. --Bejnar (talk) 16:58, 10 October 2015 (UTC)


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